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The Worst Bug in Your Book
Some typos are nastier than others! Neither editor nor proof-readers caught this one. Maybe because we’re just meeting bad-guys Delm and H’Reth in chapter 3 of The Courtesan Prince, so someone unfamiliar with them might not see how out of … Continue reading
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The Second Edition Cometh …
Part 1: The Courtesan Prince has been accruing fixes, scribbled in the margins of my personal copy, since its publication in 2005 I got started on the job this month, and will be sharing the journey, here. Happy to hear … Continue reading
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Interview with Lynda Williams
Still love the interview I did with the intrepid and generous Derek Newman-Stille on Speculating Canada, August 2, 2013. Here’s a quote from it: “The blindness of social systems, in other words, is revealed by the participants’ failure to see … Continue reading
Book Release – Cursed Dishes (from Reality Skimming Press)
Book Release.
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Making a book …
… is about making the world stand still long enough for a good, long exposure of one pearl in a sea full of broken shells. – Lynda Williams, publisher at http://facebook.com/relskim
Visual Ideas for a Chest Tat?
What’s the best way to assemble a dragon to use as a chest tattoo? Wings spread? Head over the sternum? We’re exploring possibilities. If you’ve got ideas, please share! Links to visual suggestions would be grand, as well. Art … Continue reading
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LARPing in Text
Woke up today on a battlewheel talking to Erien Lor’Vrel, a character in the Okal Rel Universe. For 30-odd years, he was the main avatar of my friend Alison. And Alison wasn’t the first friend I larp’d with in the … Continue reading
OnAir on Trent Radio for the Summer : Mondays at 8:00 PM
Originally posted on Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy:
Speculating Canada is going On Air on Trent Radio for the summer. I will be on air every Monday at 8:00 (EST) throughout the summer starting next monday (April…
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Reality Skimming Press Social – April 26, 2014, 7 pm
Reality Skimming Press Social – April 26, 2014, 7 pm It’s not a launch, it’s a social. Friends in the lower mainland are invited to come catch up with what we’re doing. And kindred spirits to come meet us. The … Continue reading
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“Empathy flows in both directions …
“Empathy flows in both directions. At one point, afraid he might die in a coming conflict, the prince begs leave of his betrothed to lose his virginity to a courtesan, and she writes back in anguish telling him she wishes … Continue reading
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